Federal Home Loan Bank Topeka awarded a total of $4 million in grants to 14 tribes and tribal housing entities for home repairs, housing construction, infrastructure and homebuyer assistance.
The 2026 awards, announced Oct. 20, come through the bank’s Native American Housing Initiatives Grants Program, which supports affordable housing and community development in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Each recipient applied in partnership with a bank that belongs to FHLBank Topeka.
Three recipients received the largest grants, at $500,000 each, for projects including:
- Housing Authority of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: Down payment, closing cost and rehabilitation assistance for approximately 15 to 20 low-income tribal homebuyers.
- Kiowa Tribe: A realty and title department to help families resolve ownership, probate, heirship and land-record issues that can prevent access to housing assistance.
- United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians Housing Department: Infrastructure and accessibility improvements for an 18-unit elder and veteran duplex project in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, along with two housing laborer positions and community amenities.
Other awards include:
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation: $444,000 to renovate 20 low-income elder housing units in Rossville, Kansas.
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Housing Authority: $400,000 to develop up to three tiny homes for tribal veterans and provide down payment and closing cost assistance to eligible low-income tribal households.
- Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation: $250,000 for staffing and initial supplies to open a 100-bed crisis center for people experiencing crisis or homelessness.
- Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska: $250,000 to purchase and make minor repairs to up to two homes for tribal families and workers.
- Comanche Nation Housing Authority: $240,000 for critical repairs and accessibility improvements to at least 62 elder-owned homes.
- Chickasaw Nation: $200,000 for roads, sidewalks and utilities serving a planned 40-unit rental housing development in Sulphur, Oklahoma.
- Kialegee Tribal Town: $200,000 for housing repairs, utility services, appliance assistance, and rental and energy assistance.
- Southern Ute Indian Tribe: $166,000 for dollar-for-dollar matching assistance of up to $12,000 per eligible tribal member for home purchases, construction or renovations within the reservation.
- Omaha Tribal Housing Authority: $150,000 for headquarters repairs, data security and repairs to critical systems in existing tribal housing.
- Osage Nation: $100,000 to build up to five energy-efficient tiny homes for Native veterans in Osage County, Oklahoma.
- Wyandotte Nation: $100,000 for critical repairs to approximately 14 to 16 tribal homeowners’ primary residences.
FHLBank Topeka is a member-owned cooperative that provides liquidity, housing finance support and community development funding to local financial institutions. It is one of 11 banks in the congressionally chartered Federal Home Loan Bank System.
